HIST 2061 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dysentery, Smallpox, Atlantic Slave Trade
Document Summary
The middle passage: take away, slavery creates racism, racism does not create slavery, the culture of the atlantic slavery was shaped by the material circumstances (economics) of the discovery of the americas. Definition: triangle trade and forced migration, coined by english slavers for the middle stretch from africa to england, Africans were the main export: describes the largest forced migration in human history. North america and the caribbean: the death of the native american forced laborers created demand that led directly to the atlantic slave trade. & brazil: british north america, 17th century, crops, tobacco, rice, indigo (1) these crops led to the demand of slaves in north america, demographics --- sub saharan africans, black males, portuguese and spanish, monopolies. Africans on the middle passage: war in west africa and expansion on the kongo, war between african states created a surplus of slaves for the atlantic.
